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This engaging and thought-provoking lesson is the final lesson in a series of three lessons designed to accompany the class reading of Kate Cunningham’s 'Vlad and the Great Fire of London.’ This lesson covers the final section of the text (from the point at which the soldiers are creating firebreaks to the end of the text).

The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentation enables students to understand the text through:
-Retrieving key information;
-Inferring and deducing hidden meanings;
-Summarising text events.

The lesson contains a range of retrieval, vocabulary, inference and deeper thinking activities. The PowerPoint presentation (18 slides) guides students through each stage of the learning. The lesson has a particular focus upon children’s interpretations of the story’s ending, and using summarising skills to outline the main events of the text. For the deeper thinking task, children use the storyboard template (provided in both Word and PDF) to break down and summarise the main events of the text.

There is a lot of content here, so I would suggest perhaps breaking this up over two lessons. The resources are most suitable for students in upper KS1 (I originally used these resources with a year 2 class), but may be adapted for other age groups, depending upon the individual context of the school and students.